a collection of 400 small images on a gray wall

Wednesday Writings: Chapter Three

In July we shared Chapter Three of Wednesday Writings, one of Holt/Smithson Foundation's digital programs. This chapter’s focus is on writings by Robert Smithson, which provide an unparalleled vantage into the concepts, influences, and ways of thinking that guided his work. Smithson wrote extensively and published his writings in exhibition catalogs and publications such as Artforum, Harper's Bazaar, Studio International, Arts Magazine, and Avalanche.

⁠Wednesday Writings Chapter Three

Week One
Robert Smithson, A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art (1968)

Week Two
Robert Smithson, A Cinematic Atopia (1971)

Week Three
Robert Smithson, Cultural Confinement (1972)

Week Four
Robert Smithson, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape  (1973)
 

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Check out our previous chapters of Wednesday Writings:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Robert Smithson, 400 Seattle Horizons [destroyed] (1969)
Installation view: "557,087" curated by Lucy R. Lippard, Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, September 5—October 5, 1969
Instamatic snapshots
3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 9.5 cm) each

Archived News

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Holt artworks in "All Light: Light and Space yesterday and today" at Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Light was a constant source of fascination for Nancy Holt throughout her four decades of artmaking. Whether drawn from the stars or powered by electricity, she approached light as a phenomenon, an idea, and a material in itself. Three of her pivotal works investigating the perceptual qualities of light are featured in All Light: Light and Space yesterday and today, opening on Friday, November 14, 2025 at Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, and on view through March 1, 2026.

Robert Smithson looking at the camera from the back of a stationwagon loaded with rocks

Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson

In 1968 Robert Smithson declared: “A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance.” "Casting a Glance: Dancing with Smithson" at Marian Goodman Gallery Los Angeles takes him at his word and invites eighteen artists to join Smithson on the floor as partners who resist, improvise, and extend the rhythm of his thinking.

two people looking through sculptural seeing devices at black circular shapes painted on a white wall

Holt's "Locators with Loci" on view in "Minimal" at the Bourse de Commerce

Nancy Holt's 1972 sculpture Locators with Loci is on view in the exhibition Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce, Paris on show through January 18, 2026. Curated by Jessica Morgan, Director of Dia Art Foundation, the exhibition traces the diversity of this Minimal Art since the 1960s through over a hundred works by some forty international artists, many from the Pinault Collection.